Three major court cases involving violation of electronic copyright came into the spotlight in Russia over the past two weeks, revealing a steady – though controversial – progress in the application of copyright related legislation in the country.
Russian Phone Company (RPC), the retail wing of major mobile operator MTS, announced last week that it had filed a number of lawsuits against the world’s four major mobile handset makers. According to the lawsuits, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung and LG are accused of systematically violating deadlines in contractual obligations for non-functional handsets. The four …
Pavel Vrublevsky, the founder and main owner of electronic payment company ChronoPay, was arrested last Thursday, being suspected of having organized a cyber attack on the website of Assist, a competitor ChronoPay, in an attempt to block payment transactions with the Aeroflot website.
The Russian Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications (FSA ITC) together with the Moscow police has conducted a number of pilot special operations to prevent the illegal distribution of databases containing personal data, the agency reported in a news release last week. The campaign held on June 8 targeted sellers of CDs containing …
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Pirated software accounted for 65% of the volume of all software units installed on PCs in Russia for the year — down 2% from 2009 but nevertheless representing a commercial value of approximately $3 billion, reports Business Software Alliance (BSA) in its 2010 report on global piracy.
Microsoft will run a 30-day ad campaign in Russian newspapers Delovoy Peterburg and The Moscow News in an effort to notify the parties responsible for the Rustock botnet that the botnet has been shut down and that they are being summoned to court, the company reported in its blog on Monday.
On 18 May 2011 the Presidium of the Supreme Arbitration Court (SAC) issued a decree requiring the domain administrator of the www.mumm.ru site to cease using the domain name. The SAC has ruled that use of the name infringes the exclusive rights of champagne maker G.H. Mumm & Cie to the “Mumm” trademark.
Some 500 speakers at the annual three-day Russian Internet Forum (RIF) participated in dozens of conferences and forums on virtually everything from SEO, online PR and non-standard advertising to usability, group buying, payment systems, and online monetization issues. Those concerned with legal issues and regulation were served with conferences on author’s rights, children’s Internet safety …
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Adobe Systems has won a civil suit against Sergey Mikirtumov, who has been ordered to pay the company 7,440,000 rubles (approximately $262,000) for selling and distributing pirated software. The damages award is the largest to be granted to Adobe in Russia, said Natalya Kalinina, a legal assistant for the firm that represented Adobe in the …
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In its Freedom on the Net 2011 report, Freedom House, an American NGO that monitors freedom progress or restrictions around the world, assigned Russia the status of a “partly free” country. The report acknowledges that the Russian Internet has remained a “relatively uncensored platform for public debate and the expression of political opinions,” in contrast with more …
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Neocorp Inc., a holder of telecom assets in CIS countries, filed suit against Swedish Tele2 last week in the arbitration court of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. Neocorp is demanding Tele2 to satisfy contract obligations for the acquisition of Orvell, a company valued at $38 million, which owns 100% of Construction and Installation Mobile Administration …
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The Ministry of Justice denied registration to the Pirate Party of Russia because the word “piracy,” in accordance with applicable law, is defined as an attack against ships at sea or on rivers and represents a criminal offense.
